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VENICE!

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July 7th 2007
VENICE, ITALY: Lisa and I arrived at our campgrounds in Venice on the 4th of July, trust me, I definitely was missing those barbeques and fireworks at home...but, I was in Venice....which is so much better! The campground was quite outside of the city, and we arrived later in the evening...so we just headed to the bar to treat ourselves since it was the 4th. We stayed longer than intended, and ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more